Suffering Quotes - Page 40

• The past is an anchor with suffering written on the rope. I don't live there now. I am cutting myself free.

  Mark Millar

  Cutting, Past, Anchors

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• When I look at the world it fills me with sorrow, little children today are really going to suffer tomorrow.

  Marvin Gaye

  Children, Future, Sorrow

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• Being on the path means we again meditate with joy. We deal with the suffering of life and the pain of existence without perfect enlightenment with a smile.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Mean, Perfect

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• Intentional suffering and the postponement of happiness is not yoga or Buddhism. It will not lead to a better incarnation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Buddhism, Intention

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• I learnt the lesson on nonviolence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking that I was born to rule over her.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Thinking, Hands, Wife

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.340, Grove Press

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• I will no longer confer, differ, refer, defer, prefer, or suffer. I renounce the whole tribe of fero. I embrace absolute life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Tribes, Embrace

  "Emerson: The Mind on Fire". Book by Robert D. Richardson (p. 205), March 6, 1995.

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• There's an old Celtic proverb that I follow: See much, study much, suffer much is the path to wisdom.

  Greg Jackson

  Mma, Path, Study

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• I think Hollywood's gotten more reactionary and conservative over the years, because there's no longer art in Hollywood. Art suffers in Hollywood.

  Ricky Gervais

  Art, Thinking, Years

  "Ricky Gervais: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 12, 2012.

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• Segregation, as even the segregationists know in their hearts, is morally wrong and sinful. If it weren't, the white South would not be haunted as it is by a deep sense of guilt for what it has done to the Negro - guilt for patronizing him, degrading him, brutalizing him, depersonalizing him, thingifying him; guilt for lying to itself. This is the source of the schizophrenia that the South will suffer until it goes through its crisis of conscience.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Lying, Heart, White

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Sometimes shows suffer from having many cooks in the kitchen.

  Nick Kroll

  Kitchen, Sometimes, Cooks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You become funny for a reason. I became an actor because that's who I was, nothing else - it was the only thing I was good at. You become a clown and you make people laugh because a) it protects you from everything, and b) it's this validating force in your life. And when you're 12 and 13 years old, you need validation and you're lost and you're kind of floating and you suffer from a severe learning disability and you're overweight and you have glasses... you become funny for a reason.

  Matthew Lillard

  Glasses, Years, Validation

  "Matthew Lillard on growing up". Interview with Sonia Saraiya, www.avclub.com. September 10, 2014.

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• Positive action generates positive thinking, not the other way around. Positive action is a choice, one that can be challenging, especially for people who've experienced much suffering and pain in their lives - but it's still a choice.

  Lauren Mackler

  Pain, Positive Thinking, People

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• Far too many doctors-many of them excellent physicians-commit suicide each year; one recent study concluded that, until quite recently, the United States lost annually the equivalent of a medium-sized medical school class from suicide alone. Most physician suicides are due to depression or manic-depressive illness, both of which are eminently treatable. Physicians, unfortunately, not only suffer from a higher rate of mood disorders than the general population, they also have a greater access to very effective means of suicide.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Suicide, Mean, School

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.127, Pan Macmillan

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• Loss either teaches you to persist in the face of suffering, or hardens you into a bitter cynic. Sometimes, it does a little of both.

  Grace Slick

  Loss, Littles, Faces

  "Somebody to Love? A Rock-and-Roll Memoir". Book by Grace Slick and Andrea Cagan, 1998.

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• That someone would want another human being to suffer, or would even tolerate the idea, for committing no crime at all but being reasonable, is truly frightening. A religion that breeds such people is a genuine plague upon the earth.

  Richard Carrier

  Ideas, People, Earth

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• If I had to sit in Heaven forever, knowing that there are these people, millions and millions- probably billions of people, suffering these eternal horrible torments and there was nothing I could ever do for them, that, to me, would be Hell.

  Richard Carrier

  Knowing, People, Forever

  "The God Who Wasn't There". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• I know I'd rather have any amount of time with a dog I love and suffer the mourning than not have the time at all.

  Julie Klam

  Dog, Mourning, Knows

  Julie Klam (2010). “You Had Me at Woof: How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of Happiness”, p.67, Penguin

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• Sam Harris fearlessly describes a moral and intellectual emergency precipitated by religious fantasies--misguided beliefs that create suffering, that rationalize violence, that have endangered our nation and our future. His argument for the morality, the honesty, and the humility of atheism is galvanizing. It is a relief that someone has spoken so frankly, with such passion yet such rationality. Now when the subject arises, as it inevitably does, I can simply say: Read Sam Harris’ Letter to a Christian Nation.

  Janna Levin

  Christian, Religious, Honesty

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• The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Kindness, World, Pity

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1862). “The adventures of Philip on his way through the world”, p.158

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• It's quite possible that Beckham suffers from a mental block at big tournaments

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Block, Quitting, Beckham

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• Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Empathy, Brain, Neuroscience

  "Is Compassion Meditation the Key to Better Caregiving?" by Matthieu Ricard, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2010.

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• That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Buddhism, Mind, Trying

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• With the guitar I've suffered a great deal, but when I've had a good time, the suffering seemed worthwhile.

  Paco de Lucia

  Guitar, Good Times, Worthwhile

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• Hope is in the name of God, the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Hope is when you compare your suffering to the infinite, immeasurable love and grace of God.

  Nick Vujicic

  Jesus, Names, Grace

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• Many Christians suffer from loneliness because they are sitting instead of serving.

  Croft M. Pentz

  Christian, Loneliness, Sitting

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